Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Leadership

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Namath, Joe

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Allen, Norman

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

Lincoln, Abraham

I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.

Truman, Harry S

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

Welch, John

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

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Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

Schorr, James

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Saunders, Richard

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Kissinger, Henry

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Orwell, George

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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Bennis, Warren

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals

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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Lauren, Ralph

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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Ovid

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Perot, H. Ross

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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Rohn, Jim

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

Motto

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Selden, John

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Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Taylor, Claude

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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Bird, Larry

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli, Niccolo